THNG038 - Manmai Laoshu Hongcha 2026

Product detailed description

🍵 Tea taste profile and other interesting facts?

This tea provides a distinctive taste of sweet pastry, exotic flowers and juicy cherries with soft minty, citrusy and spicy undertones. Unlike other tea villages from Bada Tea Mountain, we were impressed by minty taste, which you usually find at other tea mountains. This tea also presents a short memory for the Autumn tea harvest in 2026 and richness of the local tea gardens with the beautiful mountain view, which we fell in love. We also added this tea to provide better view into different tea materials (xiaoshu, laoshu, dashu, gushu) and for research purposes show how the local environments can influence even the medium size tea trees.

🌏 Tea origin & production? 

This fresh red tea originates from Bada Tea Mountain (巴达山), one of the largest and most demanded tea regions in Menghai County (勐海县). Manmai (曼迈) village belongs to one of the less known and most remote tea villages at Bada Tea Mountain. The name of the village is in Dai language and can be translated as a "central village". In 2022, the village have added extra Chinese character "Manmai Dui" (曼迈兑) to prevent mismatch with the same name of the village at Bulang Tea Mountain.

Manmai village (曼迈) has around 900 people and it is located at the elevation around 1560 meters above the sea level. Most of the local people are represented by Bulang tribe (布朗族). Unlike other tea villages at Bada Tea Mountain, Manmai village has bigger proportion of the ancient tea tree gardens and apart from tea, the livelihood strongly depends on corn and sugarcane crops. In addition, Manmai village have several buddhist temples and has a professional footbal field to support the young footbal talents.

The tea leaves were harvested from old tea trees (laoshu 老树) around 50-60 years old across tea gardens close to Manmai village (曼迈) at elevations of approximately 1500-1600 metres above sea level. The first Spring harvest of 2026 was carried out by Nan, who hand-picked and manually processed the red tea (Yunnan hongcha 云南红茶). The loose tea was then compressed few months later (Q3/2026) and purchased directly at lady Nan during our work trip across Xishuangbanna at the end of 2026. 

🌱 Want to know more?

Due to our ongoing work trip across Xishuangbanna (September-October 2026), the detailed information will be added after our arrival to Europe. This tea recieved a subsidy from the Czech-Xishuangbanna Tea Association (CZEXITEAS), which allow us to provide this tea for more affordable price to promote the local producers.

In case of the pre-orders, please, use the online payments or bank transfers since the amount of tea samples carried back to Europe is very limited. Those tealovers who will pay in advance will get a priority over those who would like to pay after our arrival to Europe. If you have further questions, feel free to contact us at info@bannahouse.cz